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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Using a https certificate in Vista

Quite often I find the need to develop locally for a site using https. You can do this with Self-Signed Certificates in IIS 7.0. You don't have to install anything, so it's much easier to set it up than it has been in the past.

Open IIS

Expand your local server

Click on Server Certificates

Select 'Create Self-Signed Certificate' on the right.

Enter a name (ie - local)

Click on Web Sites

Right click on Default Web Site and select Bindings

Add a new Web Site Binding for https and select your 'local' certificate

Click ok and close.

For whatever reason, a restart was required, but this may not be the case for everyone.